(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers Sept. 7, 2015)
The room was packed at Leavenworth’s Riverfront Community Center last week for a town hall meeting on a proposal by President Barack Obama to move maybe 100 or so prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay prison to the hometown high-security prison.
All but a handful were absolutely against having those foreign prisoners anywhere near their homes, businesses and families. And, you gotta think that if some of those Gitmo detainees—most not charged with any formal crimes against the United States but who are likely at least terrorists—are moved to Leavenworth, well, they might have their families and friends join them. That can’t really happen at the Gitmo facility in Cuba, but, well, things are different here.